Word: fanon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WRETCHED OF THE EARTH by Frantz Fanon. 255 pages. Grove...
...author was a Negro intellectual who was born in Martinique and died at 36 of leukemia in a Washington hospital. A friend recalled: "He was still shouting and arguing with people on his deathbed." Educated in French medical schools, Frantz Fanon was assigned to an Algerian hospital in 1952. He quickly identified himself with the Algerian rebels, whose leaders were deeply influenced by Fanon's thinking on racism, colonialism and war, though shocked by his atheism. It was in his psychiatric work at Blida hospital-now renamed for him-that Fanon gained his insights into the minds of colonized...
...recognize their government stemmed from Nikita Khrushchev's fear of offending De Gaulle, whom he hoped to use to split the NATO alliance. They are aware that Red Chinese aid was given more to embarrass the West than to help the F.L.N. Even fiery anticolonialist Dr. Frantz Fanon said contemptuously: "If the Communist powers really cared, they would have made a major effort to help us, not just make propaganda with a trickle of aid." Internationally, the F.L.N.'s Algeria is not likely to be subservient to either Moscow or Peking; most probably it will follow a "neutralist...